Bletchingley

From Suffolk to Surrey

Family Stories by LoisApril 9, 2016May 21, 2018

The Days and the Kettles

Family Stories by LoisMarch 13, 2015September 10, 2018

Before this was a bank…

Places by LoisNovember 13, 2014

Family Stories by LoisOctober 16, 2014September 10, 2018

A hundred years ago today, Dorothy Alice Colgate was born to her mother Augusta, and father Ernest Colgate, in Bletchingley, Surrey. Augusta was the youngest of a large family of Browns, she was born in 1891, the youngest of eleven children. Ernest, in contrast came from a family of four, three sisters and he was […]

Family Stories by LoisJune 14, 2014February 2, 2019

Home view from abroad

I wrote yesterday about visiting the battlefields of World War One, and our wish to find the memorial to my husband’s relative, Horace Colgate. Here is a post I have previously published, showing the village where Horace, and my husband both lived as children, although some sixty years separated their boyhoods. Horace Colgate died nearly a […]

From Surrey to some foreign field

Family Stories by LoisJune 13, 2014September 10, 2018

What they did…

The Radwinter series by LoisMarch 18, 2014September 16, 2018

Bletchingley, the home of Horace Colgate

Family Stories by LoisMarch 8, 2014September 10, 2018

Family Stories by LoisNovember 7, 2013September 16, 2018

Stychens Lane

Stychens Lane in Bletchingley, Surrey, runs out of the village, in a northerly direction. It’s pretty and old, and I have used it in my story of the Radwinter family, putting one of the children there in 1851, according to the census. If you look at the census return you won’t find him, because I’ve […]

Family Stories by LoisOctober 29, 2013September 10, 2018

Ploughing…

This photo of my husband’s grandfather must have been taken some time before the war… what a different age, and how hard their lives must have been.